Dire Cure

"First, do no harm," the HippocraticOath begins, but before she might enjoysuch balm, the docs had to harm her tumor.It was large, rare, and so anomalousin its behavior that at first they mis-diagnosed it. "Your wife will die of itwithin a year." But in ten days or soI sat beside her bed with hot-and-soursoup and heard an intern congratulate